"Two wounded hearts find love while working to save a struggling ranch"

Veterinarian Molly Turner has lost another loved one. After her companion, Daniel Aguilar, dies of lung cancer, Molly is determined to keep his ranch running. She and her little girl will be fine, no matter what anyone else thinks. Her brother's friend J.B. may be a lifesaver for the ranch. But will her battered heart be able to stand another hurt?

Jared Boyd, J.B. as his friends call him, has been through hell and back. After a career as a sniper for the military, he became a member of a SWAT team. When that got to be too much, he ran a security company until his drinking got out of control. Sober now, J.B. manages to take things day by day. He knows he should stay far away from Molly, but something just draws him to her. Working on her ranch may be the best or worst decision he ever made.

Jared and Molly soon act on their mutual desires. Jared has found a woman who is willing to submit to his kinkier proclivities. Molly, although a sexual novice, finds pleasure in the acts Jared teaches her. She may be his boss on the ranch, but in the bedroom, Jared holds the reins. Can they continue their relationship of mutual pleasure? Will circumstances force them apart before they are ready?

Molly has to face the realities of Jared's past when a stalker strikes close to home. Will Jared lose Molly by using his warrior talents? Or will Molly's fear of losing Jared be the impetus to her withdrawal? Both Jared and Molly have to face their fears before a future together is possible.

After a disjointed beginning, TIME WILL TELL evens out into an admirable tale of two hurt souls finding love with each other. Jared is worried his past will make him a bad husband and father. Molly is worried about losing yet another person she loves. Together, they can overcome those doubts and fears. I recommend that readers start with the first two books in the Time series before tackling Ms. Harte's latest.

Sensuality: Rated E-rotic by the publisher. Explicit sex, light bondage, anal sex; sexually explicit scenes: 9.

Reviewed by Denise Powers
Courtesy Sensual Romance Reviews
Posted January 2, 2004

Summary

Molly Turner is used to losing what she loves. She's still several years shy of her thirtieth birthday, but she's already lost the man she loves to cancer, and is left alone with a baby to raise and a ranch to run that's on the verge of bankruptcy.

Jared Boyd, known to his friends as J.B., is sorely in need of peace—of mind, body and spirit. A former combat sniper, SWAT team member and security company owner, his scars are more than skin deep. They run right down to his soul.

When J.B. arrives at Molly's ranch, his help seems too good to be true. Molly is afraid to admit she needs him—and J.B. is afraid she'll run once she sees the real man under his calm, gray-eyed exterior.

Fate intervenes in the form of a crazed stalker, and only time will tell if their love—and they—will survive.